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    "content": "communicate in English. Everybody in the hospital was in military uniform, which would be extreme in our case, but people there were ready to work. When they see you they ran towards you because they know you might need help. The attitude of the health workers was impressive. This House can only do the same through legislation. Just yesterday, a pregnant woman died in Kiambu. If you speak to our female colleagues or the people we represent, you will find the kind of treatment they get from doctors and nurses when they have gone to hospital to deliver. This happens even in high level hospitals. Hon. Speaker, my sister died in Nairobi Hospital because the doctor who operated her came back after 48 hours. I told another doctor that I wanted to take the Nairobi Hospital to court and he told me: “I wish you luck”, yet he is a senior doctor there. Kenyans are confronted with a scenario that this Bill cannot cure. This is 1 per cent of what we need. We must do something to make it possible for medical practitioners, for example, the sweeper in the medical facility to know that if you want to deal with a sick person, you must be cordial, loving and caring like it happens everywhere else. This is possible and we must do it in law. In the conversation I had in Indonesia, I was told that as a country, they have a policy to produce not less than 7,000 doctors. As it were, we have all these universities and students are dying to go to university to study medicine or engineering and somebody sits somewhere to decide their fate. Two weeks ago, I read in the newspapers that there is a new version invented in Kenya like M-pesa was invented, by a medical student. This boy has invented a version of"
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